Project 4
Data-driven storytelling: How do we tell meaningful stories with data?
We live in a world that is shaped by our interaction with data, which is increasingly complex, large and accessible to few. In the final weeks of this course, we will be creating stories from datasets. For the final project, students assemble into teams to brainstorm and prototype an interactive narrative experience that tells a story with data, around data, or about data. It could be a data visualization on the web, a physical installation using hardware and human bodies, transmedia story, augmented reality game, or an interactive documentary experience.
Week 10
November 1 Intro to Project 4; Inspiration Data Lore Hacks; Design Thinking; Mime Academy Walkthrough
November 3 Exploring examples, tools, resources,
Week 11
November 8 Group work; Part A: Planning the Story; Submit to: Blackboard/Groups/Discussion Board/ Part A
November 10 Reading: Data Storytelling: Using Visualizations to share the human impact of numbers ; Group work : timelines and deliverables; Writing
Week 12
November 15 Reading: The Inevitable Chapters 10-12; Post-election Survey; Part B: Assembling the Game/Story: Submit to: Blackboard/Groups/Discussion Board/ Part B
November 17 Group work
Week 13
November 22 1st draft of positioning essay due; ELI peer-editing day
November 24 Thanksgiving
Week 14
November 29 Project 4: Group 1, 2, 3, Presentations
December 1 Project 4: Group 4, 5, 6, Presentations
Week 15
December 6 Presentations; Course evaluation; FutureMe
December 8 Conferences about Project 4
Final Exams:
Due: Revised Project – Final Exam
Tools
- Video Game: GameMaker: Studio; Tutorial; Unity
- Interactive Documentary: Eko ; Example
- Interactive and VR Images: Thinglink – 360° VR Image: Examples, More Examples
- Interactive book: iBooks; Examples (iPad)
Resources
- Why You Need Data Storytellers
- Finding the stories hidden in the data
- On Stories: narrative matters
- Data Storytelling: Using Visualizations to share the human impact of numbers
- Kearney, Richard. On Stories: Thinking in Action. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001. (Excerpt)
- Pomerantz, Jeffery. Metadata. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2015. (Excerpt)
Case Study
*Draft Due in Eli November 22
- See Think Brownstone for Case Study examples
- See 42 Entertainment for ARG descriptions
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